I have so much to be thankful for.
My mom and I have a great relationship (this hasn't always been the case...my fault!) She and I can talk about everything and she always has great advice for me. I really couldn't have a better mom! Love you mom!
I am so thankful for my family. My husband is a spice in the cabinet, he brings laughter into my house every day. The way he plays with my son is crazy funny. He takes care of me when I'm sick (today I woke up with 102 fever).
My job and sick time. As I mentioned before, I woke up sick today. I feel really blessed to have a job that, even though I just came off of 3 months maternity leave, I have sick time left over and am able to stay at home.
My sister, Janelle. She's the best there is! She's my son's nanny, she came over today even though I stayed home. She took care of Evan and I slept. Probably why I feel a bit better already.
A God that blesses us beyond what we deserve. I have so many blessings in my life. I have friends and family that love me. I have a roof over my head and food in my fridge. We may be really tight with money, but we always have a positive balance at the end of the month...maybe just by pennies, but at least it's positive.
There's just a few things that I'm thankful for. Off to bed for this sicky.
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Saturday, October 8, 2011
what is it that mom always says?
My mom didn't say this phrase often, but it's a well known phrase:
"The idiom that there is no use crying over spilled milk means that if we make a mistake and something gets broken, it is not helpful to wail in lament, and instead we should simply clean up the mess and get on with it.
This saying comes from the days when dairy animals were milked by hand into a pail. Milk does get spilled occasionally when the pail is tipped over, and then there simply is no getting it back into the pail. Like many other times in life, crying or complaining won't help at all, and it's better not to waste the time or energy and instead just get back to the task at hand"
As I discussed in a previous post, I've had to pump and dump due to some meds I was taking. I did this one day and started feeding Evan the next day just as the doctor ordered. Evan was unusually fussy the day I fed him so I decided to pump and dump the rest of the time I was on the meds. It was a sacrifice I was willing to make in order to keep my son happy (I did miss feeding him terribly, but daddy got a good number of feedings in and loved it!). I was lucky enough to have a supply built up so that feeding him my milk was possible. My sister/nanny was so good about pulling enough milk out during the day so that they would thaw by evening. Evan's tummy has stayed happy and that makes mama happy.
Wednesday I allowed myself to cry (just a little) over milk...my breast milk. On Wednesday night, I was making Evan a bottle and I accidentally knocked over the bottle with his freshly warmed milk. 5 ounces gone, wasted in seconds! I've been pumping/dumping about 13 ounces a day and then here's 5 whole ounces of good, fattening, calorie-filled, med-free milk and I just dumped it all over the counter. I cried and then I smiled because my very next thought was "Well, at least I aimed into the sink and not all over the kitchen floor."
The moral of this story, if you have to clean up milk with one hand while holding a crying baby in the other, the most you can hope for is not having to get on your hands and knees to clean it. :)
Don't cry over spilled milk!
Have you ever thought what does it mean exactly? There's always a moral, right? Well, lucky us! We have the internet...from this source:
"The idiom that there is no use crying over spilled milk means that if we make a mistake and something gets broken, it is not helpful to wail in lament, and instead we should simply clean up the mess and get on with it.
This saying comes from the days when dairy animals were milked by hand into a pail. Milk does get spilled occasionally when the pail is tipped over, and then there simply is no getting it back into the pail. Like many other times in life, crying or complaining won't help at all, and it's better not to waste the time or energy and instead just get back to the task at hand"
As I discussed in a previous post, I've had to pump and dump due to some meds I was taking. I did this one day and started feeding Evan the next day just as the doctor ordered. Evan was unusually fussy the day I fed him so I decided to pump and dump the rest of the time I was on the meds. It was a sacrifice I was willing to make in order to keep my son happy (I did miss feeding him terribly, but daddy got a good number of feedings in and loved it!). I was lucky enough to have a supply built up so that feeding him my milk was possible. My sister/nanny was so good about pulling enough milk out during the day so that they would thaw by evening. Evan's tummy has stayed happy and that makes mama happy.
Wednesday I allowed myself to cry (just a little) over milk...my breast milk. On Wednesday night, I was making Evan a bottle and I accidentally knocked over the bottle with his freshly warmed milk. 5 ounces gone, wasted in seconds! I've been pumping/dumping about 13 ounces a day and then here's 5 whole ounces of good, fattening, calorie-filled, med-free milk and I just dumped it all over the counter. I cried and then I smiled because my very next thought was "Well, at least I aimed into the sink and not all over the kitchen floor."
The moral of this story, if you have to clean up milk with one hand while holding a crying baby in the other, the most you can hope for is not having to get on your hands and knees to clean it. :)
Friday, October 7, 2011
We'll make it...
Well, I've officially made it through my first 4 weeks back to work. And guess what! I survived and Evan survived and, most importantly, my nanny survived! She's the most important because if she didn't survive I wouldn't be able to work and if I couldn't work, we wouldn't be able to pay the bills and without that we'd be homeless and...well...you see where this is going. Basically, she's now the foundation of our family :) haha!
Here are a few things I've learned along the way:
1. Wash your bottles more often - in fact, maybe you need to buy more bottles
2. Make a video of your baby being fussy - watch it while you are pumping. It'll help your milk let down faster :)
3. Having a nanny is amazing, a must-have! She'll take such good care of your little one. Take care of her and she'll make your work life a breeze. She'll text you pictures of your sweet one. She'll bring your baby to work to deliver things that you forgot.
4. Steam bags are an amazing help. They can sterilize your pump supplies easily after you rinse out the milk. It makes pumping at work so much easier!
5. Communicate with your department and supervisor. I know, it's weird to have such a shift in your work identity, but you are a working mom now and pumping is a normal part of life. It probably won't weird the coworkers out as much as you think. Also, let them all know the struggles you are having. They will be amazingly supportive and helpful...and understanding.
6. Don't have high expectations of what you can accomplish. Go in slow and build up from there. Be easy on yourself. Don't worry if you feel like you are starting a new job - your life basically changed 100% over your maternity leave. You shouldn't expect to retain silly job tasks when you have the cutest baby in the world to take care of! :)
7. Have faith that your decision is the right decision. You will have up's and down's about going back to work. Believe in yourself. You know instinctively what is best for you and your family. If working is the best thing right now, you have the power within you to make it work. When you feel that working isn't the correct choice anymore, you'll figure out a way to stay home.
If I could just share one thing I've learned from this journey, it would this. Mama has the power to do anything and everything necessary to keep her family alive and protected and fed. Mama can do everything needed to provide and when mama falters, all her supporters are there to scoop up the heap on the floor and put her back on her feet on the pathway to success.
Here are a few things I've learned along the way:
1. Wash your bottles more often - in fact, maybe you need to buy more bottles
2. Make a video of your baby being fussy - watch it while you are pumping. It'll help your milk let down faster :)
3. Having a nanny is amazing, a must-have! She'll take such good care of your little one. Take care of her and she'll make your work life a breeze. She'll text you pictures of your sweet one. She'll bring your baby to work to deliver things that you forgot.
4. Steam bags are an amazing help. They can sterilize your pump supplies easily after you rinse out the milk. It makes pumping at work so much easier!
5. Communicate with your department and supervisor. I know, it's weird to have such a shift in your work identity, but you are a working mom now and pumping is a normal part of life. It probably won't weird the coworkers out as much as you think. Also, let them all know the struggles you are having. They will be amazingly supportive and helpful...and understanding.
6. Don't have high expectations of what you can accomplish. Go in slow and build up from there. Be easy on yourself. Don't worry if you feel like you are starting a new job - your life basically changed 100% over your maternity leave. You shouldn't expect to retain silly job tasks when you have the cutest baby in the world to take care of! :)
7. Have faith that your decision is the right decision. You will have up's and down's about going back to work. Believe in yourself. You know instinctively what is best for you and your family. If working is the best thing right now, you have the power within you to make it work. When you feel that working isn't the correct choice anymore, you'll figure out a way to stay home.
If I could just share one thing I've learned from this journey, it would this. Mama has the power to do anything and everything necessary to keep her family alive and protected and fed. Mama can do everything needed to provide and when mama falters, all her supporters are there to scoop up the heap on the floor and put her back on her feet on the pathway to success.
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